Jim Harris is one of North America's best-known thought leaders on artificial intelligence, digital transformation and innovation leadership. For many years, he has been helping international companies understand change, shape it strategically and use it as a driver for sustainable growth. His lectures combine clear analysis with inspiring practical relevance and give executives the tools they need to steer their companies safely through times of rapid technological upheaval. Jim Harris takes to the stage more than sixty times a year around the globe, whether in front of the management teams at IBM, Walmart, Barclays, SAP, Zurich Insurance or Canon. His lectures impressively demonstrate how companies can shape the future instead of being caught off guard by it. He talks about the opportunities offered by AI and generative AI, as well as innovation, leadership and the art of making organisations resilient and capable of learning. As an author and thinker, he has been shaping the international discourse on the future of the economy for years. His book Blindsided! has been published in over 80 countries and is considered required reading for executives who want to identify trends early on and strategically align their companies with them. Harris was one of the first seven Canadians to be personally trained by Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore for his presentation An Inconvenient Truth. Named ‘Speaker of the Year’ by TEC Canada, the country's largest CEO network, Jim Harris is known for delivering speeches that leave a lasting impression: he makes change accessible, generates enthusiasm for new approaches and inspires his audience to view the future as a shared responsibility. Audiences not only gain new perspectives, but also the motivation to act courageously and with foresight.